1. Unlike most of the world, Chile is blessed with natural barriers. The fruit-growing region is protected by the Andes Mountains on the east, the Antarctic ice cap to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Atacama Desert to the north.2. Chile is the home of two Nobel Prize winning poets, Gabriela Mistral(1945), and Pablo Neruda(1971).
3. The Chilean fruit-growing season is opposite that ofthe US., so marketing is complementary rather than competitive.
4. Chile has a broad spectrum of growing climates. These climactic variations favor diversified production of fruits and prolonged harvest seasons. In the past 16 years, fresh fruit exports from Chile to North America have increased over 700 percent. Chile is the primary wintertime source (over 95 percent) of fresh grapes for the US and Canada.
5. Chile is the second-largest producer of salmon in the world.
6. There are more than 2,00 0 volcanoes in Chile, of which 50 are actually active.
7. Soccer is Chile's national sport.
8. Chile provides North America with almost 15 percent of all its fruit sales during the months of November through April.
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